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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY JULY 26r8, 1915.
another story For the time being every- thing appears fairly satisfactory, and they refuse to entertain any other vision but that of victory.
INTIMATIONS
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ENGLAND IN WAR TIME. I must confess to e partiality for thos
ORGANISING THE WORKERS people who say what they mean in a The letter
AGAINST THE ENEMY.
In England wo, also, think of victory; short business-like manner.
[BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
indred, there is no doubt that we shall ultimately achieve it. But it is realised signed British which appeared in
LONDON, June word. ·· the 0.1ne day last week, asking a direct question regarding the legal
Before Mr. Lloyd George accepted now as never before since the beginning And where is the local office in the Coalition Government as of the war that it will require all our branch of the China Association was branch 7 Of course, it may have been Minister of Munitions the position strength. And that fast has had a chasten- delightful,
are now no sorious labour disputos, or working zealously and unestentatiously newly created to meet new conditions ing effect, not previously apparent upon behind the scenes, nobly doing its "bit" caused by the war-it was stated in different sections of the nation.
That is what I have in the war, like the Shanghai branch. Forliament that 2,000,000 persons were Medesty is a commendable quality, engaged on the manufacture of munitions strikes, or lock-oute as was the case a fow The uneasy feeling of the working doubt, but there are many of us who Obviously that means a tremendous output months ago. would like the Hongkong branch of the every week; and yet it is not enough C.A. to emerge into the light of day and It will be the task of the department set describe to us exactly what it has done up in Whitehall Gardens to increase the classes--especially in the ship-building and is doing. Can we anticipate this, supply, and to go on breaking every pre-centres-that their labour was being most acceptable Pre and learn that the coubling and sugges-vious record surely and steadily until the exploited in order to pile up eciessal
There
referred to as an outstanding feature.
TELEPHONE 1741
NEW SEASON'S
A 5 or 10 Catty Box constitutes one of the
He was a passenger on the, a silent, unobtrusivo man, who seemed to be always listening attentively but making no com- At first his manner. ment in return. passed unnoticed, and then an imaginative fellow passenger, with a burst of sleuth hound intelligence, conceived the iden that he was a Teutoa-and a spy. There after he was malously watched. People endeavoured to lead him into conversa tion, but the "spy" retained the silence of the Sphinx. This merely tended to strengthen suspicion, and plans, deeply thought out were prepared for his ap prehension on arrival at Hongkong. The amateur Sherlock Holines was bursting with suppressed excitement when the ship
duces an overwhelming quantity of shell contracts has disappeared. The position came to anchor in the harbour, and he tive correspondent "British" has been cumulative effect of national effort pro- fortunes for employers engaged on war sets to those at Home, quickly tipped the knowing wink to ansatisfied?
and With all its manifold sins examination officer. The latter put cer- tain questions, but the "spy" knew nothing. An arrest followed, and then-it-wickedueses the Press has managed was discovered that the supposed German far to emerge triumphant from all its was a Frenchman who was unfortunate conflicts with authority. At least five enough to have an impediment in his prosecutions under the Defence of the speech and was not given to much talk Realm Act or is derivatives have been ing.
But when this poor Frenchman instituted, and ouch of them has been realised what had happened, I am laughed out of Court. They comprise one informed, be developed a tri-colour couu-in Australia, two in the Straits Settle.have been done in any particular direc
touance of rage. These little incidents must occur, it would seem, for there are alys thom people he will swear Bolemnly enough that the person who just passed, and lorked so foreign, must have beeu a spy War fever affects the vision
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in a variety of ways
No doubt many readers have been Censors which the Law would allow to favoured with a certain literary effort
· Conferences held mystically beaded signed and done.". (The original is not punctuated, by the way? For the bene fit of those who have not been so favoured I reproduce the document in extenso. It reads majestically as follows:-—.
wide wide World, with the first Conference, signed and dono March 27th 1933. Madrid with
"France honoured the
the second signed and dore April, 14th 1891. Brussels, with third signed and dons additional act 14th December, 1938. UB. of America with the fourth Conference signed and done 2nd day of June, 1911, The articles came in force. April, 1913. was carefully drawn up and divided into Aarticles to certified 10 Nations.
Su caffed Solicitors and Promoters of Companies have blindfokled the honest public, who are ignorant of Patent and International Patent Laws.
FNI.
They have takes their hard earned May and throws it into the bottomless They havo further tried to invalidate British States hand, and British Inter. national Staton bonds, States of the Union, where Great Britain and we demand our Sovereign rights they are of no credit to tho Nation, and yet really such things luppen in the time of war. It is believed they are related to the Kaiser. official correspondence shall to French, the expenso shall be borne by the Con tracting Countries."
Tho
IE expectations are realised-and thereof the country in relation to the stapend- is no reason to doubt that they will beos struggle on which we are engaged
official secrecy which has from the first within the next few months there should with our gallant Allins is now rightly be availabic for use enough ammunition understood. It has taken some time for hung over the conduct of the war, bụt to blow the Germans from the Yser to the knowledge to penetrate the wil of selfish clamour about wages and hours of a hopeful augury for the future. labour is stilled. That is a good sign-
the Rhine!
Of course it is very easy to be wise Anybody cutside an after the event.
tion looking back with the light of idiot asylum can always see what might
experience to guide them. We were not prepared for a world-war. beloved that any European Power would deliberately bring about Armageddon.
of Prussian militarism is banished from if need be--until the monstrous menas the world like the evil thing it is.
KWANGTUNG FLOOD RELIEF FUND.
It is well understood, too, that thou-! sands of employers not engaged on war We never contracts or Government work are badly common burden. And, in addition, there mente, one in Shanghai, and one in London. Since we may be perfectly sure
These considerations he heavily taxed. that they would never have been under
hit, and have to bear their share of the we were wrong, as undoubtedly we were, profits made out of the war are likely to takes unless they had been regarded as
There is no room for faction or sordid The whole of the mighty flagrant cases, they show what a strained
If is a kind of grim satisfaction that huge place upon its new-found powers; and at any rate we were on the side of the have had a sobering effect on opinion, interpretation officialdon is inclined to
On the other hand, Germany, having disputation.
cmtrated on the ultimate aim in vie how much must be suppressed by the angels.
fford and answerving was fully prepared. Having set up that namely, to win the war completely by determination for month-or years eveh, most perfect war-machine yet devised sustained be published. While we have learned to planned and worked for the catastrophe, energies of the country are being con accept this sort of thing more or less as
equipped it, with characteristic German a matter of course in small out-of-the-way British communities, it is a matter for by the devilish ingenuity of man, they surprise and regret that the Imperial thoroughness, with all the accessories, This authorities should have stultified them-Hundreds of unexploded shells examined
six years ago. selves by taking proceedings last mouth behind the Allies' lines recently bear the against The Times for merely paraphres date of five or ing information that was already publics not necessarily evidence that the It was only to be expected that the supply of shells of lator manufacture is man of the world unbeing drawn upon, Their arrangements magistrate before whoin the case was becoming exhausted and the old stock is
by
influence, for maintaining the supply are presun official heard, being a trammelled would refuse to endorse the view that ably adequate for a war the character of At any rate, Mr. Lloyd. George Germany was obliged to look at The which has been largely determined by Times in order to find out how many them. beans made five. One hopes that the told the House of Commons this afternoon moral will not be missed in Hongkong, that the Central Empires are manufac where the idea seems to be held that the turing 250,000 shells a-day. "And, be enemy ignore all the other newspapers added, by way of informing industrial of the universe, and concentrate their England what is despanded of it, "we eager gaze on ours, It may be an oblique have got to improve upon that." compliment but, if so, it is a very embar rassing one.
The Minister of Munitions has a mighty ask in front of him. But nobody doubte that he will prove equal to it. Whatever Apropos of a question that has engaged else he may lack, the little Welshman has the attention of the Hongkong Sanitary the knack of getting things done. He is Board, it is rumoured that, having friedsolutely fres of the trammels of off the water-borne system, the residents of cialism, although he has himself created as witness his army of land valuers. But he has no use for red tape, and that is the, Shameen are unanimously in favour more officials than any other slotesuai of the dry-aṛth system.
hopeful in the present emergency.
Then comes a P.B. in-well, some sort of original jingle. This goes as follows:- They have said my heart was etern,
whon. truth
It is granfying to learn from Mr. doubted They
have strongest, nat in future day's they will live to Steel Maitland, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the Colonial Ofice do not wish to conceal anything
Ionrn,
That truth will live the longest,
Ho
workshop and a lathe able to make some! is not going to rely upon the big manu featurers alone for shells. Any man with
a
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Mr. Chan Shok Shan Massy Tia Wo, Cheong Keo Mr. Ho Chak Lum Mr. Ma Teo Chiu.
Mr. Yung King Tong Wing Hing Tong Mesere. You Cheong Leong, Mr. lu Lai Kong
They may soraotimes think when they regarding the Singapore Mutiny. This, part or other vi a shell can rely upon, Mr. Lum Ro
are pressed,
Wish unjust ea and slanders, They should have borne in mind, Lies never proyal to such Commercial
swindlers.
Nogo-called Bolicitors and Promo- ters of Companies" should be able to blindfold the bones public after this illuminating outburst. Verily, strange things happen in war time if solicitors their hard-earned money take
and
"throw it into the bottomless sen." Those who are considering the problem: What shall we do with our Boys?" will not be inclined to make Solicitors and Company Promoters of them if this is what these gentlemen do with their money. Better make them Poets, or Philanthropists.
one supposes, is an indication of a new policy by a new Government.
RODERICK RANDOM.
FOR
STOCK ROLLING
RUSSIAN RAILWAY,
mighty factory for shell-making. work now. The nation is to become one does not matter & jot what a man's machinery has hitherto turned out in thei piping times of peace, the question of the Munitions Minister is: "Can you help to make shells?" It bo can, the order
"Well, got on with it?!...
The temper of the country is such that Eighty locomotives and 2,000 trucks, being part of a shipmens as a result of all this unprecedented upheaval in in America, have arrived at Harbin this the placing of a huge Government order normal industrial life is accepted almost must have them, come what may-it is month. The locomotives and trucks will as a matter of course. Bince it is clearly recognised na a plain duty on the part of shops. be fitted up in the Harbin railway work understood that the Army want shells
all who can to supply them. It will take some time to organise the nation to the maximum of effort, but, happily, time is
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the energy. Much joy has been brought to the PURSUERS SHOT BY SHAMMING on the side of the Allies, and against Mr. D. D.
There is another outstanding feature hearts, and great contentment to the ninds of many Kowloon residents y
A wonderful feat has been performed by something which has appeared in the
trick of shamming death, sho his two England connected with munitions. It Gazette. The joyful news was to the French airman, who not only, by the of the present position of affairs in effect that an amendment of the condi German air pursuers, but also succeeded is now fully realised that the war is likely Germany nor Austria Hangary-is-short. with it intact, as well as his own, to the to last for a considerable time. Neither The German squeal, which
The N.-C. Daily News of the 10th inst. tions of hawkers' licenses prohibits in capturing their machine and roturning
roxanoitring of food.
tho world, that throughout hawkers crying their wares in the Hill French lives.
Lieutenant P was
British Fleet reports the
On Thursday night (14th inst) about of district, and in that portion of the Kow-
to
7011 o'clock a very serious motor car acci starve Wouvre region with the object of dis- chood
trying
dent occurred in the Western district, only 2 loon peninsula to the south of and includ with an observer, Adjutant L, in the
was of people,
fortunately without fatal results. Mr. ing Austin Road. I emphasise Kowloon's covering the exact emplacement of enemy by means
was the object af a vigorous shelling by joy because it seems that over there they batteries. While so engaged his machine
Teutonie lio invented to try to justify J. M. Joseph of the Shanghai Stock have a particularly lustly body of hawkers the Germans, who ultimately sent up an millions
when passing the Loongfei Bridge the who move about in batches and shout and Aviatik machine to attack him.
The Frenchmen by successful roan- shout to their hearts' content at all hours
earring flow over the Germans, who pirete submarine attacks on unarmed Exchange, was returning from a ride of the day, though with a decided promptly took flight, an evident to the ships. And, as I have said, both the with his sister. Miss Sophio Joseph, and a terrific explosion, which threw the Mr. Joseph weakness for the early morning; at that French motor obliged the airmen to Central Empires are well off as regards engine developed signs of trouble and
lieving the Frenchmen to be lors de com hour, when Morpheus seems to create his descend abruptly. The enemy pilot, be-war supplios Again, so long as the finally came to stop near the Honigs The unfortunate face and hands, and Miss Joseph with simulating death, allowed the Ger-tent to accept paper money, the respective was trying to locate the fault, there was most delightful and restful pictures bat, landed mear them. Lieutenant people in both those countries are con berg's Chat nge. While the native chauffeur Representations have been made to those
stot him through the head and ran to who are supposed to see to it that man pilot to approach: and then suddenly Governments will be well able to carry chauffear off his feet.
injured and lies in the Chinese Red Cross peaceful citizens have their peace pre-the Aviatik and shot the observer on Later, when the evil day of defeat soaped with only a few scratches on his
The Frenchmen returned to camp, the and disillusion somes for them, there will caly a bad shaking.
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